Months later, "The Art of Living" hit bookstores worldwide. The publisher had scheduled a modest release, expecting maybe 50,000 copies sold over the first year.

They were completely unprepared for what happened.

The memoir sold 500,000 copies in the first week.

Within a month, it was translated into forty-seven languages. Within two months, it was required reading in social work programs across twelve countries. Within three months, it had inspired seventeen new foundations ...